Paint



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEQ JOHN A. SHEPHARD, OF VVOOSTER, OHIO.

PAINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,330, dated August 12, 1884. Application filed April 4, 1884. (Specimens) ful Improvements in Paints, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

The aim of myinvention is to provide a composition of redlead and oil which will remain in a pasty or semi-liquid condition for an indefinite length of time, so that it may be manufactured economically on a large scale and placed upon the market as an nnchangeable article of merchandise, ready for immediate use by the'consumer.

The combinations of red lead and oil hitherto known in the art were of such character that when retained in bulk the lead would speedily separate from the oil'and assume a solid condition, by which it was rendered unfit for further use. As a consequence of this fact it has been the custom for the individual consumer to purchase the materials and prepare his composition by hand immediately before using the same. This operation resulted in the expenditure of much time and labor, and in the loss of such material as was not immediately used.

In preparing my composition I proceed as follows: I take of red lead, one pound; boilcd I or raw linseed-oil, half a gill; japan, half a gill 5 turpentine, half a gill; glycerine, half an ounce. These ingredients are intimately incorporated by grinding them in an ordinary paint-mill, or by any equivalent means which will insure their thoroughincorporation. The result of the operation is a composition which, unlike the ordinary compounds of red lead and oil,will remain in a soft or semi'fluid conditioni'or a great length of time, and which JOHN ASHEPHARD.

\Vit n esses:

M. O. ROUGH, H. B. SWARTZ.

will, when applied to an exposed surface in I 

